The Strokes confirmed for All Points East in London

The Strokes have been confirmed for All Points East in London, and their supporting cast is ridiculously good.

The New York band are making a ‘global comeback’ this year and will take it to London’s Victoria Park on May 25th, and those of you able to get hold of tickets will also be treated to performances by The Raconteurs, Interpol, Johnny Marr, Parquet Courts, Jarvis Cocker and Courtney Barnett.

Also due there is Anna Calvi, who featured prominently in Live4ever’s Best Of 2018 series last month; “If music at its most basic is about connection, Anna Calvi has a startling new take on the implications,” our Hunter album review opens.

“The Hunter is her third album, one released after a four year gap in which she temporarily relocated to France with a new lover and found the space and time provided by anonymity to re-assess everything from femininity, to identity constraints, to the elemental dynamics of rock and roll.”

“Starting from that atomised place has given her the courage to make a huge record, one bathed in red – a colour she recently described as capturing the collection’s essence, a breakout work damned by qualities described as ‘visceral, cerebral, animalistic’.”